ART REVIEW : Garden art party – Local sculptor Donald Davis' sculptures resonate well in the open outside Reynolds Gallery

For all of Santa Barbara’s surprising riches of cultural resources and virtues, the tradition of the sculpture garden is notably scarce here. We have been experiencing an ad hoc, public “sculpture garden” of sorts this fall, courtesy of the biennial “State of the Art Gallery,” with pieces lining State Street. But that doesn’t quite count, given the presence of asphalt and bored tourist foot traffic. For a more genuine, definitive article, one has to head out to Westmont College’s Reynolds Gallery ó always a pleasurable, bucolic prospect in and of itself. more